Don’t call me stupid!
Clever, feminist attempt by Goldie HAWN to outdo Woody Allen and be taken seriously as an actress. The humor is still there but this is an incisive (albeit repetitive) attack on sexually-insecure and unreliable White males who treat women as chattel.
This film sacrifices good structure to being a catalogue of abuses that hit the nail right on the head. HAWN is excellent as the Jewish princess who struggles to wean herself from her dependency on men - from her father to various husbands and boyfriends and would-be boyfriends - to become an independent woman who needs no-one to tell her what she can with her body (clothes, hair & sexual partner) and her mind. Like drapetomania, much of the humor here comes from the men believing that such a desire for independence is both pathological and un-feminine. this one makes you think as well as laugh in being Orlando for the non-avant garde.
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